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£21.99 Understanding Classical Sociology Praise for the First Edition: Totally reliable??? the authors have produced a book urgently needed by all those charged with introducing students to the classics??? quite indispensable' - Times Higher Education Supplement This is a fully updated and expanded new edition of the successful undergraduate text. Providing a lucid examination of

£22.99 Resisting McDonaldization The McDonaldization thesis argued that contemporary life is succumbing to the standardization, flexibility and predictability of fast-food service. This text makes a critical appraisal of the thesis, discussing the rationalization of modern life, consumer culture and modern citizenship. George Ritzer's McDonaldization thesis argued that co

£21.99 Talk and Interaction in Social Research Methods The Language of Social Science - Darin Weinberg A Brief Introduction PART ONE: TALK-IN-INTERACTION IN THE CONTEXT OF RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES Standardization-In-Interaction - Douglas W Maynard and Nora Cate Schaeffer The Survey Interview Interaction in Interviews - Robin Wooffitt and Sue Widdicombe Analyzing Interaction in Focus Groups - Sue Wi

£22.99 Understanding Modern Sociology From the team that brought you the bestselling Understanding Classical Sociology (SAGE Publications, 1995), we now have a companion volume dealing with the modern period of social theory. An introductory chapter situates the reader in the main changes in society and sociology following the classic period. This is then followed by separate chap

£20.99 Good to Talk Good to Talk? is an attempt to look critically at what lies behind this upsurge of concern about talk in our workplaces, classrooms and private lives. It places these developments in historical context and relates their forms to the broader economic and social changes associated with globalization.The book also poses questions about the social

£21.99 Polar Inertia Polar Intertia examines how the 'here and now' of space, territory, the body, are being redefined by new technologies and shows how this redefinition undoes simplistic versions of the globalization thesis. The principal argument of Polar Intertia is that the real time of 'action and distance' - telecommunication - has replaced

£22.99 Researching the Visual List of exercises and projects Preface Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: putting visual data into focus 12 Current trends in visual research: a conceptual review 213 Two-dimensional visual data: images, signs and representations 574 Three-dimensional visual data: settings, objects and traces 1075 Lived visual data: the built environment and i

£21.99 Phenomenological Sociology Argues that phenomenology was the most significant and influential philosophy to emerge in the twentieth century. The social character of phenomenology is explored in its relation to the concern in twentieth century sociology with questions of modern experience. This book opens up a series of new questions for contemporary social theory. '

£21.99 Culture as Praxis This updated edition seeks to classify the meanings of culture, rather than simply describing it. In his proposal that culture is inherently ambivalent, the author distinguishes between culture as a concept, culture as a structure and culture as praxis, arguing against a relativist approach. In this major work, Zygmunt Bauman seeks to classify

£21.99 Bourdieu and Culture Pierre Bourdieu is one of the leading sociologists of the present day and this book provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date description of Bourdieu's key concepts, some previously unavailable to English readers. It demonstrates why Bourdieu's ideas remain central in contemporary sociology and it traces their connections with wid

£21.99 Bodies at Work Provides an account of the body/work relation in contemporary western societies. This book examines a wide range of employment sectors: industrial employment; customer relations; health practice; care work; the beauty industry; and sex work. It helps readers think more clearly and creatively about how work relations shape bodily experience. &#

£20.99 Race and Social Analysis Preface Introduction 1Ch. 1 People and Race Making 21Ch. 2 Lives and Auto/Biography 51Ch. 3 The Place of Space 77Ch. 4 Globalisation 108Ch. 5 Migration, Displacement and Belonging 140Ch. 6 The Unbearable Whiteness of Being 173 Concluding Comments 200 Bibliography 207 Index 216 Race and Social Analysis

£20.99 Advertising Cultures Acknowledgements Introduction 1Pt. 1 Advertising, Cultural Intermediaries and Cultural Analysis 131 Advertising and Commercial Culture 15Pt. 2 Commerce and Creativity 372 'Purveyors of Creativity': Advertising Agencies, Commercial Expertise and Creative Jobs 393 Declasse and Parvenus? The Social and Educational Make-up of Creative Job

£21.99 Interactionism 'Atkinson and Housley have produced a book that is a very competent, interesting and useful addition to other work in the field. Its distinctive contribution for me, lies in the exploration of the relationship between, and developments within interactionist sociologies' - Sociology What is symbolic interactionism? This refreshing and a

£21.99 Visual Methods in Social Research There has been an explosion of interest in visual culture - coming largely from work in sociology, anthropology and cultural studies and while there are a number of practical and technical manuals available for film, photographic and other visual media, there is a dearth of writing that combines both the practical and the technical. This book

£21.99 An Introduction to the Sociology of Health and Illness The main purpose of this book is to demonstrate that disease is socially produced and distributed. Becoming sick and unhealthy is not the result of individual misfortune or an accident of nature. It is a consequence of the social, political and economic organization of society. In developing this thesis, the author systematically introduces st

£22.99 Classical Sociology Preface: The Sociological Classics Acknowledgements Pt. 1 Classical Theory 11 The Central Themes of Sociology: An introduction 32 Max Weber's Reception into Classical Sociology 303 Max Weber and Karl Marx 484 Max Weber on Economy and Society 725 Emile Durkheim on Civil Society 886 Karl Mannheim on Ideology and Utopia 1117 Karl Mannheim an

£21.99 The Social Body This book examines key questions regarding human embodiment. It explores both the corporeal nature of social life and the social nature of the human body. The book is essential reading for anybody who has an interest in questions of embodiment and the place of 'the body' in social scientific thought. It will be of interest to new stude

£23.99 Body Modification This fascinating collection explores the growing range of body modification practices such as piercing, tattooing, branding, cutting and inserting implants, which have sprung up recently in the West. It asks whether this implies that we are returning to traditional tribal practices of inscribing identities onto bodies on the part of 'moder

£26.99 Statistical Modeling for Management Bringing to life the most widely used quantitative measurements and statistical techniques in marketing, this book is packed with user-friendly descriptions, examples and study applications. The process of making marketing decisions is increasingly dependent on quantitative analysis and the use of specific statistical tools and techniques whic

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